Estimating the Gini index for heavy-tailed income distributions

DOI10.37920/SASJ.2021.55.1.2zbMath1488.62207OpenAlexW3155830086MaRDI QIDQ5164131

Abdelaziz Rassoul, Amina Bari, Hamid Ould-Rouis

Publication date: 9 November 2021

Published in: South African Statistical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.37920/sasj.2021.55.1.2

zbMATH Keywords

income inequalityGini indexextreme quantileheavy-tailed incomes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Statistics of extreme values; tail inference (62G32) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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